Girls' name · peaked in 1954

Roxanne name popularity since 1925

59,540 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Roxanne. Half of them were born in 1967 or earlier, so the typical Roxanne is about 59 years old in 2026. Roxanne peaked in 1954 as the #158 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 59,540; Named Roxanne, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1954; #158 for girls that year
Typical age: About 59; Median birth year 1967
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #1,315 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.9% girls; 59,485 girls · 55 boys
Most popular in: Hawaii; 3.66× its national share

Peak year is the year Roxanne made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Roxanne births per year, 1925–2025

1954 was the biggest year for Roxanne both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1949 and 1954, Roxanne became 5.9× more common, from 1 in 5,170 baby girls to 1 in 870.
Steepest fall: Between 1988 and 1993, its share of baby girls fell by 62%, from 1 in 1,500 to 1 in 3,940.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Roxanne's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Roxanne.

Decade by decade

Babies named Roxanne in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	48	0	–
1930s	363	0	#1,350
1940s	1,987	0	#519
1950s	16,608	10	#165
1960s	13,577	6	#242
1970s	8,169	5	#309
1980s	9,044	34	#285
1990s	4,287	0	#640
2000s	2,154	0	#1,064
2010s	2,131	0	#1,313
2020–25	1,117	0	#1,315

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

43.3% of babies named Roxanne from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Baby Boom years (1946–1964). The full split by generation:

Where Roxanne is most popular

The index compares Roxanne's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Roxanne.

State	Index	Babies
Hawaii	3.66×	643
Minnesota	2.55×	2,613
North Dakota	2.39×	424
Maine	1.98×	476
South Dakota	1.85×	332

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Roxanne and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

Spelling	Girls	Peak year
Roxanne (this page)	59,485	1954
Roxann	8,885	1955
Roxane	5,179	1956

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Roxanne's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Roxanne.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Roxanne (1954).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data